Drew Stubbs hit a two-run double against the Astros on Wednesday to give the Reds a 5-3 win. / Thomas Campbell-US PRESSWIRE

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(Drew) Stubbs hit a two-run, two-out double off (Coco) Cordero in the ninth inning Wednesday, to lift the Reds to a 5-3 victory over the Houston Astros. The win was the seventh straight for the Reds, a season high. They’ve won 14 of 16 overall.-- John Fay, in Thursday’s Enquirer

DENVER, July 28 (AP) --On Friday night, the Cincinnati Reds became the first team in Major League history to rally from a 19-0 deficit with two outs in the 9th inning. Their stunning 20-19 decision over the Colorado Rockies was capped by Todd Frazier’s grand-slam home run that left Coors Field and landed in the men’s restroom atop nearby Pike’s Peak.

Rockies starter Drew Pomeranz took a perfect game into the 9th, and retired the first two batters, before Drew Stubbs dropped a bunt single down the third base line. The ball appeared to be headed foul, until it struck a Coors Light bottle cap that an excited Rockies fan had chunked onto the field seconds earlier. Propelled by that hunk of good fortune, the next 20 Reds batters all reached base, 14 by base hits. The Reds hit 12 homers in the inning, including a 500-foot, three-run blast by Gapper, who was on the trip to attend a mascot convention in nearby Fort Collins.

(Actually, the show was in Fort Lauderdale. Gapper flunked Reading. But he had a heck of a time in Aspen, pretending to be a snow mogul.)

Frazier hit two of the 9th-inning homers, continuing his march toward rookie of the year honors. To help his cause, between innings Frazier was spotted hoisting a home made sign that read, I’M NOT BRYCE HARPER, BUT I’M STILL PRETTY DARNED GOOD.

Frazier’s first homer traveled an estimated 988 feet, splashing into a stein of Breckenridge IPA at the nearby Blake Street Tavern. After the game, an elated Frazier said, “I didn’t really get all of that first one. In fact, both my hands slipped off the bat as I made contact. I was determined to square the bat up if I got another chance.”

“Hey, man,” remarked Dusty Baker. “That was huge. Big time.”

After the game, Frazier saved the life of a Rockies fan who had choked while attempting to win a bet that he could swallow six Swedish meatballs at once. Frazier Heimlich-ed the guy while performing “Strangers in the Night’’ during a karaoke competition that he won thanks to a perfectly pitched “doo-be-doo-be-doo.’’

Back in Cincinnati, a rehabbing Joey Votto wondered if he could get a little more time off. A new production of Wicked was opening on Broadway.

Until the wild 9th, it appeared the Rockies would stop Cincinnati’s improbable stretch of success. Once Votto went down for a month with a torn meniscus, conventional wisdom was that The Club would suffer. That was before Homer Bailey threw several thousand shutout innings while listening to Robert Earl Keen on his headphones and mumbling something about “the shack outside La Grange’’. And before Aroldis Chapman’s fastball was clocked at 327 miles an hour, breaking his own mark of a wind-aided 326.

Even grizzled veteran third baseman Scott Rolen was heard to remark, “I haven’t seen anything like this since I batted behind Bid McPhee.”

Reds starter Bronson Arroyo deliberately spotted the Rockies 12 first-inning runs, explaining later, “Dude, I just wanted to see how far behind we could get before we came back to win like we always do.’’

Off the record, Brandon Phillips suggested the Reds might not lose again until sometime next June. “We’re tight, know what I’m sayin’?’’ Phillips said.

Meantime, Todd Frazier has his sights set on a new goal. “I wouldn’t mind seeing if I could hit the Hollywood sign tonight,” he said, before a batting practice session that left ball-hawkers in nearby Oregon fetching their gloves.

Someone asked Baker if he pondered conceding the game to Colorado, given his club was behind 19-0 and had run out of pitchers not named Aroldis.

“Hey, man,’’ Baker said. “That was huge. Big time.’’

The Reds will go for a 9th win in a row Saturday night, while hoping to extend their streak of Quality Starts to 148. “We haven’t had a bad one since I became pitching coach,” said pitching coach Bryan Price.